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https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-trump-organization-secrets-f7a6bffb-2d6d-4794-9245-92ed8cf035ea.htmlTrumps make-it-go-away guy
Mike Allen
Michael Cohen has spent his career making Donald Trumps problems disappear. Now hes the problem Trump cant possibly make vanish.
The big picture: Cohen, unlike Ivanka or the other kids, is the only person on earth intertwined in Trumps professional, political, personal, legal and family life the man with secrets few others hold. And, thanks to a court ruling yesterday, many of those secrets, reportedly recorded and emailed, are or soon will be in the hands of federal investigators.
N.Y. Times: "A federal judge in Manhattan [Kimba Wood] indicated ... that she was not prepared to grant President Trump exclusive first access to documents seized in F.B.I. raids on the office of his personal lawyer, and said that she was considering appointing an independent lawyer to assist in reviewing the seized materials."
During his decade of work for the Trump Organization, Cohen a 51-year-old Long Island native had a tiny 26th floor office within sight of Trump's sumptuous corner domain:
When Jim VandeHei and I interviewed the president-elect in his Trump Tower office the week before the inauguration, Michael Cohen caught us on the way to the elevator, and ushered us into his lair to kibitz.
For years, Cohen was reporters' personal connection to his boss the person who called with complaints and would connect you with Trump.
So the court decision is devastating: As we have told you, Cohen is a potential Rosetta stone to Trump's final decade in private life.
Cohen knows more about some elements of Trumps life than anyone else because some stuff, Ivanka doesn't want to know.
For years, Cohen was reporters' personal connection to his boss the person who called with complaints and would connect you with Trump.
So the court decision is devastating: As we have told you, Cohen is a potential Rosetta stone to Trump's final decade in private life.
Cohen knows more about some elements of Trumps life than anyone else because some stuff, Ivanka doesn't want to know.
Why Cohen matters, from a former Trump campaign official:
The guys that know Trump best are the most worried. People are very, very worried. Because its Michael {effing}Cohen. Who knows what hes done?"
"People at the Trump Organization dont even really know everything he does. Its all side deals and off-the-books stuff. Trump doesnt even fully know; he knows some but not everything."
"Cohen thinks hes Ray Donovan [the Showtime series starring a fixer for Hollywood's elite]. Did you see the photos of him sitting outside on the street with his buddies smoking cigars? [Saw it in Axios AM!] Makes it look like a Brooklyn social club."
Ill tell you whos worried. The principal.
"People at the Trump Organization dont even really know everything he does. Its all side deals and off-the-books stuff. Trump doesnt even fully know; he knows some but not everything."
"Cohen thinks hes Ray Donovan [the Showtime series starring a fixer for Hollywood's elite]. Did you see the photos of him sitting outside on the street with his buddies smoking cigars? [Saw it in Axios AM!] Makes it look like a Brooklyn social club."
Ill tell you whos worried. The principal.
Be smart ... A source who's in frequent contact with the West Wing told me: "POTUS' worries about Cohen are reflected in his dark moods."
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Trumps make-it-go-away guy (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2018
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Nitram
(22,794 posts)1. "Cohen is a potential Rosetta stone to Trump's final decade in private life..."
Excellent analogy.